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Battle lines have been drawn for the prestigious Nagpur Lok Sabha constituency ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, where incumbent Congress MP Vilas Muttemwar is pitted against BJP stalwart and poll debutant Nitin Gadkari.
A seven-time sitting MP, Muttemwar, who has been retained by the Congress, will be facing a tough...

New Delhi: All is well between the BJP and the Shiv Sena, it seems. Just days after BJP leader Nitin Gadkari met Raj Thackeray, the chief of MNS - Shiv Sena's rival - both BJP and Sena scrambled to portray a united front.
"I met Uddhavji at Matoshree. I conveyed to...

Mumbai: Ending days of speculation after Bharatiya Janata Party leader Nitin Gadkari appealed to him not to split the anti-Congress vote, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray on Sunday refused to oblige by announcing his first list of Lok Sabha candidates. Though he maintained that the party will back Narendra...

Mumbai: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray on Sunday announced that the party will contest the upcoming 2014 Lok Sabha elections and released the first list of candidates. MNS supremo also said that his party will support Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi.
MNS released the...

Mumbai: Maharashtra BJP strongly backed its former party chief Nitin Gadkari, who had met Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) president Raj Thackeray on Tuesday, to request him not to contest Lok Sabha polls, to ensure that votes do not get fragmented.
"Gadkariji has clarified the motive behind meeting Raj Thackeray, since he...

Mumbai: A day after Bharatiya Janata Party leader Nitin Gadkari met Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray, the Shiv Sena has warned the BJP. The Shiv Sena has said that any talks with the MNS will affect the BJP-Sena alliance.
"If our ally praises NCP, Congress it is detrimental to our...

Mumbai: The Bharatiya Janata Party is trying to balance its allies' concerns after its meeting with Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray. Maharashtra BJP President Devendra Fadnavis held a meeting with Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray on Monday night.
This came amidst reports that the Shiv Sena is unhappy about...

Mumbai: Ahead of the Lok Sabha election, the Bharatiya Janata Party is making every possible move to get more allies and garner as many votes. In a major development, former BJP president Nitin Gadkari and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray met on Monday with the former appealing to the...

Mumbai: Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party is making every possible move to garner as many votes to form a government at the Centre. Former BJP president Nitin Gadkari has even made an appeal to Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray not to contest Lok Sabha...

Mumbai: Ashish Shelar, the city BJP chief, rubbished the reports of a secret meeting between former party president Nitin Gadkari and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena President Raj Thackeray at a five-star hotel in Mumbai on Monday.
"Let me put to rest the irresponsible speculation. No secret meetings happening between BJP and MNS,"...

Pune: BJP leader Nitin Gadkari on Sunday said that the NDA would be able to get new allies to form the next government but ruled out the Sharad Pawar-led NCP as its possible partner.
The NCP has been part of the Congress-led UPA and therefore the question of its joining NDA...

New Delhi: In more trouble for former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, a Delhi court has summoned him in a criminal defamation case filed against him by Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) leader Nitin Gadkari.
Kejriwal will have to appear in court on April 7 in connection with the case....

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party has released its first list of candidates for the Lok Sabha elections. Candidates to 54 seats have been announced.
Sixteen names have been cleared from Maharashtra, which include Nitin Gadkari from Nagpur and Gopinath Munde from Beed. Seventeen names have been cleared from West...

MNS chief Raj Thackeray on Saturday praised former BJP chief Nitin Gadkari for scripting "tremendous development" in Maharashtra during his stint as PWD minister in erstwhile NDA government.
Gadkari on Staurday attended ground-breaking ceremony of the Goda Park project, which is said to be the dream project of Thackeray whose party...

New Delhi: A Delhi court on Saturday will take up the BJP leader Nitin Gadkari's defamation case against former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. The court will hear arguments on the plea to summon Kejriwal as an accused.
Gadkari had filed the defamation case against Kejriwal for naming him in...

BJP leader Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday filed a criminal defamation complaint before a court against former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for allegedly defaming him by including his name in the Aam Aadmi Party's list of "India's most corrupt".
The petition came up for hearing before Metropolitan Magistrate Gomati Manocha who...

AAP's nomination of activistturned politician Anjali Damania is likely to hit the bipolar contest in the Nagpur Lok Sabha constituency, which will now witness a triangular fight.
Damania, a political green horn, pipped local social worker Rupa Kulkarni (also a contender for the AAP nominee from the Nagpur seat) to be...

Maharashtra irrigation scam whistleblower and AAP nominee Anjali Damania on Monday said she is determined to take on BJP heavyweight Nitin Gadkari from Nagpur Lok Sabha constituency, in order to keep exposing his corrupt ways and alleged involvement in many more scams.
"I was reluctant to fight a poll earlier because...

New Delhi: The 2014 Lok Sabha elections is no longer a contest between the two major political parties Congress and BJP as the debutante Aam Aadmi Party has sounded the bugle for the general elections. After the AAP government in the national capital resigned on Friday, it is...

Senior BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on Saturday said his party's vision committee might propose either "no income tax" on the service class or give full tax exemption on their net savings.
"The party's vision committee headed by Nitin Gadkari plans to propose either abolition of income tax on the service class...

New Delhi: Senior BJP leader and former party president Nitin Gadkari hit out at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his government on various issues including the Jan Lokpal Bill and for taking Congress's support to form government.
Gadkari said AAP did a Uturn by taking outside support of the Congress...

As the government gets ready to table the Telangana Bill in Parliament, ugly scenes are playing out in the House. There was high drama over Telangana in the Rajya Sabha on Monday. Papers were thrown at the Chair and an attempt was made to pull out his mike. The Congress...

New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party leader Ananth Kumar on Saturday sent a legal notice to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal after he named him in the list of corrupt politicians. This comes after former BJP chief Nitin Gadkari on Friday sent a defamation notice to the Delhi Chief Minister claiming...

Jammu: Hitting out at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for calling leaders corrupt "without any proof", yoga guru Ramdev today said the Aam Aadmi Party leader who had set out to cleanse the system has "lost his way".
"We should give proof while levelling allegations. It is the biggest dishonesty to...

New Delhi: Former Bharatiya Janata Party chief Nitin Gadkari on Friday sent a legal defamation notice to Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal for making baseless allegations.
Earlier in the day, Gadkari hit back strongly at Kejriwal for calling him 'corrupt'and asked him to apologise within three...

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday launched his Lok Sabha campaign with anticorruption as the key poll plank. Kejriwal named Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi among his list of high profile corrupt leaders. BJP leader Nitin Gadkari, who was also named, has threatened to file a defamation suit.
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New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday launched his Lok Sabha campaign with anticorruption as the key poll plank. Kejriwal named Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi among his list of high profile corrupt leaders. BJP leader Nitin Gadkari, who was also named, has threatened to file a defamation...

Satyapal Singh, who resigned as the Mumbai Police Commissioner on Friday, has admitted that he has offers from political parties. He, however, told CNNIBN that he is yet undecided on joining any party. Speculation is rife that he is likely to contest the Lok Sabha elections on a BJP ticket.
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New Delhi: Former Bharatiya Janata Party chief Nitin Gadkari on Friday hit back strongly at Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal for calling him 'corrupt'. The BJP leader asked Kejriwal to apologise within three days for accusing him of corruption. Gadkari also warned Kejriwal that if...